[Sugar-devel] Starting one activity with a uri in Sugar

[Thomas C Gilliard]

Gonzalo Odiard wrote:
> Right now, we can't open a url from a PDF file or from the the terminal in
> Browse,
> or a PDF file from Browse. In the case of files, we need copy the file in
> the Journal
> and open it from here, but there are cases where this is not a good idea,
> like when is a PDF
> stored in a content bundle already present in a XO.
>
> The experience for the user is suboptimal and there are lot of code
> duplication, for example,
> in OLPC we forked the Browse activity to include a PDF plugin [1], but we
> can't open EPUB files,
> and if I want implement this will finish re-implementing all the Read
> activity. The plugin itself
> is a hack and we are not comfortable with pushing it upstream.
>
> There are a propose from Martin Abente [2] to add a uri to the parameters of
> sugar-launch
> and looks like there are consensus to include it.
> Can we land this now? Thoughts?
>   

sugarize evince for pdf access to journal (read only)?

> Gonzalo
>
> [1] http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10699
>      http://bugs.sugarlabs.org//ticket/103
>      http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9112
>
> [2] https://patchwork.sugarlabs.org/patch/594/
>
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